Todd McFarlane plans to produce a new TV version of Spawn, his late-'90s HBO animated series, Variety reported. Producer/director McFarlane has struck a deal with IDT Entertainment to revive Spawn: The Animated Series, as well as develop at least two more animated projects, the trade paper reported. McFarlane originally produced 18 episodes of the supernatural Spawn over three years at HBO.

Spawn centers on a soldier who's executed and then reborn as a creature from hell. The show won two Emmy awards. The series was based on the comic-book series that was also the basis of a 1997 New Line movie, the trade paper reported.

McFarlane hopes to approach HBO with a new version of the show, then work his way down to other outlets if they decline, or even produce the show as a series of direct-to-video episodes, the trade paper reported.

That's good news I have several episodes on tape. I would love to have more.

Yeah, Spawn is great. Finally a show that's as badass as it was meant to be, and it didn't last long. So it's great to hear of something like this coming out of the twisted mind of McFarlane, again.

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